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Individuals with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and/or diabetes mellitus (DM) are at increased risk of cardiovascular events and have elevated externalization of phosphatidylserine (PS; which propagates thrombus formation) in a small subpopulation of platelets. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of 1) removing uremic toxins by hemodialysis on PS externalization in patients with either CKD or CKD and DM and 2) ultrafiltrate (UF) from these individuals on PS externalization in healthy platelets. PS externalization was quantified by a fluorescence-activated cell sorter using annexin V in platelet-rich plasma. PS externalization was elevated threefold in CKD patients and returned to basal values during 3-h hemodialysis. In contrast, it was elevated fivefold in individuals with CKD and DM and was still threefold above control after 3-h treatment. UF significantly increased PS externalization in a small subpopulation of platelets from healthy controls. The effect of UF from individuals with CKD and DM was significantly greater than that from patients with CKD alone, and the responses were partially inhibited by the protein kinase Cδ (PKCδ) inhibitor rottlerin and the 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)2A/2C receptor antagonist ritanserin. The data suggest that uremic toxins present in UF mediate PS externalization in a small subpopulation of platelets, at least in part, via the 5-HT2A/2C receptor and PKCδ and demonstrate that DM further enhances platelet PS externalization in CKD patients undergoing hemodialysis. This may explain, at least in part, the additional increase in vascular damage observed in CKD patients when DM is present. Copyright © 2008 the American Physiological Society.
Author(s): Wang Y, Beck W, Deppisch R, Marshall SM, Hoenich NA, Thompson MG
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: American Journal of Physiology: Renal Physiology
Year: 2008
Volume: 294
Issue: 1
Pages: F220-F228
ISSN (print): 1931-857X
ISSN (electronic): 1522-1466
Publisher: American Physiological Society
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00279.2007
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00279.2007
PubMed id: 17670899
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